₦airaland Forum

traware:
Britain banned the slave trade after participating in it for centuries and only after they started industralizing.It was every bit a strategic way to cut off their enemies (the Spanish,French,Dutch) labour capacity and had nothing to do with enlightened kindness
The fact that Britain colonized Nigeria and claimed that it was doing so to stop the slave trade and then immediately got rich of slave plantations growing palm kernels (used for palm oil) in thesame Nigeria,shows how Britain never gave a shit about slavery.

Nigeria has 65 years of independence and can't even operate a basic electricity supply in 2024. Maybe Nigeria needs to be recolonised

Mccullum:
You're not making any sense by comparing domestic slavery in Africa with transatlantic slave trade and slavery.

African chiefs and elite captured and sold slaves, just as they are stealing and selling the local resources for peanut

Racoon:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/nov/06/the-long-wave-kemi-badenoch-tory-leader-nigeria

Chai! She has now imbibed the racist mentality

What is wrong with saying that she doesn't want? UK to end up like Nigeria. For Christ's sake, look at Nigeria today: a cesspool of greed and hopelessness. There is nothing wrong in stating the truth.

ManOfSon:
I just don't get this. Does it mean the sole reason Dangote built this refinery is so he becomes a monopoly and only dealer in refined petrol in Nigeria? This is ridiculous. One can't be this shameless. It means those Nigerians who shouted when Obasanjo almost sold one of the government-owned refineries to him had a strong reason to do so. Any business that is afraid to compete in an open market is unethical and unfit for purpose.

Where is the monopoly.....

NNPC - 450,000 Refinery capacity per day
BUA Group - 200,000 P/D
Modular Refineries - 150k, refinery capacity per day

Kingpele:
Wow ....I don't believe importation of Petrol is good for this struggling economy we find ourselves. ..the solution is for dangote to sell directly to marketers..NNPC should act as referee..by so doing we will have a reasonable affordable price of psm . We should use our scarce dollars for other things not fuel importation... FTC the mods should do the needful

The solution is for NNPC to get its refineries working. Let the oil marketers build their own refineries is they are unhappy with Dangote. When do we stop importing products that we can produce.

tommy589:
Except if SS form regional government. Same applies to other regions in Nigeria. Huge land mass that's populated by diverse tribal groups,don't offer the unity needed to provide good administration. Congo is over 2 times the size of Nigeria,While Somalia is a little over 2/3 of Nigeria

Abacha has helped in dividing Nigeria to 36 manageable Federation. It is not too much for each state to carry their cross

The SS and the North are just too erratic and backward.

tommy589:

Delta and Bayelsa,are they not oil producing states providing oil revenue that sustains the country.
If those two states becomes independent nations ,though corruption may bite bigger chunk of their earnings, they won't go bowl in hand begging other federating units for money

An independent South-South will be worse than DR Congo or Somalia.

Snowx:
Nlc is a toothless bull dog..I knew Tinubu deceived them but this is their opportunity to shut down but they all went mute..bunch of corrupt mofos

They signed an agreement that they would not demand wages for another three years.

We all knew that oil subsidies would eventually be removed, so when the NNPC and government lied that there were no subsidies, we knew that there were still partial subsidies because the local petrol price in Nigeria was lower than the international price of $1.25.

Tinubu gave the NLC two options: 1. Remove the oil subsidy, and he will pay a minimum wage of N250k; or 2. Keep the oil subsidy and increase the minimum wage to N62k.

Tinubu didn't deceive the NLC; the NLC still have the old left-leaning government comrade that lack good managers and intellectuals that could review international current affairs and the economy. It was well known that Nigeria could not fund any subsidy; the country was virtually bankrupt under Buhari's $47 billion debt, N33 trillion Ways and Means and managing the crude oil export.

Snowx:
Dangote reduce your petrol price and stop greedy...Nigerians are suffering..stop being monopolistic

Nigeria's petrol is very cheap; the problem is Nigeria's purchasing power. NLC should have negotiated for N300,000 minimum wage

RHINO123:
I'm yet to understand why our refinery is not working, even modular refinery non.. why are we still importing fuel when we have refinery . this thing is beyond my imaginations

We have weak leaders who are corrupt and incompetent.

Let them sell the NNPC refineries to the oil marketers and then ban oil import so that we can have local competition

Bentacur007:
I don’t know who to believe Dangote or Nnpc
I don’t really blame them
Na minister of petroleum I go blame
Very lazy and clueless old man

Believe Dangote.

The NNPC has no working test laboratory and was responsible in 2022 for importing dirty fuel that brought the country to a halt.

https://guardian.ng/features/motorists-lose-engines-pay-more-for-repairs-over-dirty-fuel-purchase/

RealLordZeus:
Northern Nigeria should have many solar farms

They are still waiting for cheap, free gas power electricity from the south.

skywalker240:
Not a capitalist like dangote, that Man dangerously heartless

Dangote took the first risk by taking over the cement industry and turning it into a profit-making machine when the Nigerian government civil servant had turned it into a loss-making machine. Today, he is still a player in cement, but the likes of BUA, Larfarge, and Mangal Cement have caught up.

Dangote was the first to take the risk of developing a refinery. Where are the 4 NNPC refineries? Not billionaires in the SW, SE, and SS. Oil marketers can easily afford to buy the government-owned refineries and give Dangote competition.

Nigeria cannot afford to continue to be import-dependent. It needs more risk-takers like Dangote to create a competitive industrial sector in Steel and nonferrous metal, biotech, and the hydrocarbon industry.

The first has always started as a monopolist, such as Elon Musk and Rockefeller, but down the road, through government regulation and local completion, can reduce Dangote domination of the refinery industry.

gbengene1234:
Grid collapse is now a lucrative business. Unpatriotic citizens just full everywhere for the country. Civil servants and government officials are the worst. The minister must have been informed of the perfect way to stop this saboteurs but he wouldn't implement it bcoz he and his cronies benefits whenever the grid collapse. Nigerians are not ready to move the nation forward. Everyone just want to survive at the expense of other citizens.

An Electric grid over 50 years old with a throughput of 5000MW in a country of 200 million will never work. Nigerians are not problem solvers. Let

doublechief96:
One day we will get there

Illusion...

UAE, S Arabia, China are. not democracy, Nigeria needs to stop practising a political system that they don't understand

nairalanda1:
That's because people like you don't want to vote a leader that would lead us through the obligatory hardship route to an industrialized economy.

Most industrial economies went through hardship before they became able to send men into space. Either via the free market or via strong and strict planned economies.

If a leader were to come and try to replicate that in Nigeria or any other African country, you guys will shout poverty and harshness. So, we do the usual sharing the money, and borrowing when it is finished

Better be ready to vote for a leader who is serious about development, and be ready to make the sacrifices, or else stop crying and accept what you have.

Name one industry that PO built as a governor or businessman. You think development begins with saying I will make Nigeria productive. The most productive Nigerian Dangote is fighting an uphill battle with a cabal that wants to continue importing a product that we can produce locally,

China, Russia, South Korea, Iran, Singapore, Taiwan and the Gulf States didn't develop through democracy. Bostawana had one government for 58 years and Rwanda is not a democracy

post=132740687:
Source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2024/11/naira-appreciates-to-n1725-in-parallel-market-2/

What do you expect when the country prefers imported food and PMS? Naira is being converted into dollars to import products that Nigeria produce.

Yet Africans are fighting for Palestine, while black Africans are being abused and raped by Arabs.

ebukal67x:
Competition is good for the market. Lets encourage it.

I agree; as long as it is not imported, Nigeria's market will be destroyed just as they destroyed the steel and textile industries in the 1980s. What does Nigeria produce?

gracealonev:
I have mentioned it on this platform that Dangote would shock all Nigerians who have put their faith in his refinery as the only way out.

If not for patriotic competitors, like BUA, in the cement sector, Nigerians would have been groaning about that too.

One thing is, Dangote will always roll out world-class products, but he’s just a selfish capitalist.
He wouldn’t mind to share part of his profits with the suffering masses, so that he can be tagged a philanthropist.

All capitalists are selfish. But it is best to have the capitalist in your country exporting to the broader world.

dre11:
PETROAN: Dangote refinery’s substandard allegation is an attempt to suppress competitors


https://www.thecable.ng/petroan-dangote-refinerys-substandard-allegation-is-an-attempt-to-suppress-competitors/

If Nigeria does not take care, nobody will invest in this country.

Nigeria cannot export its way out of poverty. A country blessed with gas and oil should not import petroleum products. Nigeria's large external debt is due to funding imported oil subsidies.

Build your refineries if you want to compete with Dangote. What is the status of the four NNPC refineries?

Odin13:
Yoruba people has unleashed the fullness of tribalism … grin

Desperation has set in.. knowing that their god has failed already..

If Tinubu is the apple of Yoruba peoples eyes … a land of self acclaimed sophisticators.. then walahi there’s a major problem..for Yoruba people not Nigerians ..

Buhari a herdsman.. has shown to be more intelligent and brilliant than the self acclaimed sophisticators grin
Especially the one the claimed apple of the Yoruba people eyes ..

This people go just open mouth .. the talk anyhow like say they’re hexed ..

So Obasanjo that lifted the economy back fro the days of military na fool.. e come be one wey don carry economy enter gutter get sense to this people ..

Nigerians walahi.. we’ve not seen the last of the yoruba people and their government..

The desperation is only about to begin.

Na laugh Nigerians they laugh em.. from North to south .. east to west.. na only Yoruba the defend the Yoruba administration..

E just bad ..

NewDea4:
Yeriba people are a disappointment

Okupe wasn't a disappoint when he was speaking for PO. Whe you call Yoruba tribalist you are informing the world who you are a tribalist

Kobojunkie:
How exactly do you expect the government to go back after it has literally embezzled (and mismanaged the rest) the funds hat were saved from removal of subsidy, money(in addition to that saved from reducing government bloat) would have sensibly gone to implementing and sustaining Safety Net programs for the poor and disenfranchised? Where do you expect the government to get money to reinstate fuel subsidy of the kind that existed before the May 29th, 2023 debacle? At this point, why?

You are writing from a point of ignorance. There is no saving from the removal of oil subsidies. Nigeria was borrowing to fund oil subsidies.

Buhari's failure to implement economic reforms meant that Nigeria borrowed $47 billion, printed N27 trillion, and mortgaged future oil earnings for five years to fund the oil subsidies and protect the Naira. The country was generating debt and that has to stop.

Bebigiby1:
I hope Tinubu and his government are prepared for impending chaos these harsh policies will cause in due time....

The harsh reality is that the reform should have been implemented in 2007 under OBJ but was reversed under Yaradua. GEJ tried to implement it, but he was a coward and backed down under pressure from NLC, Buhari, and Nigerians.

Buhari's failure to implement economic reforms meant that Nigeria borrowed $47 billion, printed N27 trillion, and mortgaged future oil earnings for five years to fund the oil subsidies and protect the Naira.

The country is unproductive and broke. The reforms cannot be reverse

Enice:
Is this why they want EFCC disbanded! Deep pockets are behind this call for EFCC disbandment.

The lawyer

I like EFFC. Let them arrest all the PDP thieves, and when the PDP gets into power, they can arrest all the APC thieves.

UTM Floating Liquefied Natural Gas Company recently raise $9 billion loan to build LNG plant

Delta FAAC allocation is N38 billion, the largest in the country, with nothing to show in the state, no power station, deep sea port railways or major industrial sector.

ManOfSon:
My comment wasn't for self-hating, self-loathing people like you. To appreciate what's going on here, you must operate at an elevated level of understanding. I hope you won't be back soon whining and moaning when the racists/white supremacists who have promoted Badenoch as a token gesture bring out their swords and start asking for blood.

What self-hating about the truth?

Did I lie about Nigeria? Racists are all over the world, but the worst racists are the people who intentionally destroy their country(Tinubu/Buhari) and then expect loyalty and respect.

ManOfSon:
Do these know anything about this Badenoch lady at all? She may be black and have a Nigerian first name, but that doesn't mean she has any with Nigeria or the black race. In fact, her ability to thrash Nigeria and the black race generally is what has propelled her to this position.

Is Nigeria not trash? What has she said about Nigeria that is not true? Don't you read the news of insecurity, the government locking up children on the charge of treason?

Kemi doesn't want Nigeria values (tribalism, corruption, religion madness, ignorant ) to pollute Western values

10mobile:
Na wah for these guys up here. See a beautiful write-up with so many golden nuggets, but you didn't respond to even one of them. Instead, you started pouring out the dirty toilet inside you! The rate at which Nigerians reject good things and still turn around to complain against the evil they support, is beyond alarming!

By the way, is it Obi that writes his own tweets? Whoever writes his tweets deserves a global award.

The tweet got its facts wrong. Kemi is not Nigerian-born; she was born in the UK and grew up in Lagos.

God1000:
This is completely unacceptable


Our people won't be going through this unnecessary harassment and humiliation in Libya If our country is good


I hope The government of Tinubu will intervene swiftly, they should not sit back and watch Libyans maltreat our people

What an insult and embarrassment, Tinubu should order for mass evacuation of Nigerians in Libya now using our air force.

Then fight for your country

Hemanwel:
Congrats to madam Kemi!

BTW:

Having under-aged northern children in detention, honestly, is the height of heartlessness against the north by president Tinubu. I have said it before: Tinubu doesn't mean well for northerners in particular and Nigerians in general. Even the Niger-Delta is not spared.

This is the best time for the north, south-south, and Southeast to form an alliance to oust Tinubu come 2027.

Tinubu has turned himself to a demi-god; hence, doesn't give a damn whether Nigerians are facing hardship or not.

He doesn't give a damn about the north, the east or the south-south. Little wonder he has continued to appoint only his kinsmen from the southwest to his cabinet.

67% of Tinubu's vote came from the North. The North elite has failed the North millions of children out of schools, insecurity and poverty. If you think the useless Tinubu is the North problem, you must be in an asylum.